By the Sweat of the Brow
Subtitle: Literature and Labor in Antebellum America
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Published: June 1, 1995
Language: eng
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9780226075556
First sentence: For about three decades, roughly between 1830 and 1860, politics and aesthetics converged for the American writer in two questions: what is the nature of my work as a writer and what should be the relation of that work to the work performed by others?